March 26, 2024 Ukraine
Veon subsidiary Kyivstar upgraded approximately 4,000 4G base stations in Ukraine last year and has increased its 4G user base in the country to 14.3 million. However, revenue slumped by 3.3 percent during the fourth quarter of last year, with Kviystar blaming this on a cyberattack, which...
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February 28, 2024 Ukraine
Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has signed a new deal to procure and deploy Rakuten Symphony's Open RAN technology in its network. A letter of intent has been signed by the companies to show that Rakuten would be the preferred partner for Kyivstar's eventual 5G rollout. "I share the excitement of our...
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February 15, 2024 Romania
Two new data center projects totaling 40-45MW are reportedly coming to Romania. These projects are expected to cost about €500 million though the details about the companies involved, project location and scope, or timelines weren’t shared. "In 2024 we are already talking about two investments in...
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December 23, 2023 Czech Republic
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, through its Czech portfolio company České Radiokomunikace (CRA), has acquired cloud services provider Cloud4com and data center company DC Lužice. Cordiant is to acquire a Tier-III data center, DC Lužice for CZK130 million ($5.8m), and Cloud4com for an initial CZK...
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December 05, 2023 Russia / Россия
Russian ISP Tattelcom has launched a new data center facility in Kazan, in central Russia. The telco mentioned that this new 3,000 square meter facility will potentially host 400 racks and offer a 1.8MW capacity. The two phases of construction is scheduled to be completed by 2026. General...
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October 19, 2023 Croatia
Croatian ICT solutions provider Cratis revealed that it will launch a new data center this month in Varazdin, north of Zagreb, in partnership with local polyethylene films, bags, and packaging manufacturer Muraplast. This new DC North facility will offer 2.8MW across six data rooms – each 340 sqm...
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October 16, 2023 Russia / Россия
The Amsterdam-based telco Operator group Veon has completed the sale of its Russian business to the senior management team of the PJSC VimpelCom (Beeline Russia) led by CEO Alexander Torbakhov. successfully exiting the Russian market. Veon Group CEO Kaan Terzioglu said, "The closing of the sale...
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September 26, 2023 Czech Republic
Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) recently announced it's undergoing construction of a new data center campus on its site at the Cukrák transmitter, located in Jílovište to the south of Prague. The telecoms firm noted that the campus will offer a capacity of up to 78 racks at 3kW...
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August 22, 2023 Poland
A fiber company owned by the Polish government is constructing a data center in Gliwice. 24Gliwice reported that the Silesian Metropolitan Network (SSM) had purchased land at the intersection of Bojkowska and Toruska Streets in Gliwice. SMM is a municipal government ICT network operator that was...
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August 14, 2023 Moscow / Москва́
The state-owned Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia has acquired a Moscow data center. C.News.ru reports that Rosatom's Atomdata Center division has acquired a Moscow data center under construction for $237 million. The Moscow-2 facility, situated on 215,280 square feet in the Southern...
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July 20, 2023 Equinix Sofia SO1
The expansion of one of Equinix's Bulgarian data centers in Sofia has been concluded. This week, the company announced the completion of the second phase of its SO2 data center in the capital of Bulgaria. The development, which doubles the site's capacity to 700 servers, cost $12 million,...
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July 17, 2023 Russia / Россия
Obit has shared plans for a new data center in St. Petersburg, which will be located on a land plot home to a complex of vertical farms. The company is set to invest around two billion rubles ($22.1m) in the project, which will offer a capacity for 512 racks, with excess heat released from the...
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May 22, 2023 Russia / Россия
Russia's Wildberries has announced the launch of its first data center, located in the Moscow region. Spanning 16,000 sqm, the facility offers 3.5 MW of capacity. The facility is the company's first and is based at its logistics hub.The project has seen an investment of 1.2 billion rubles and is...
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April 30, 2023 Poland
According to Samsung Electronics Poland, the company has begun selling data center SSDs in the nation. Both the PM893 solid state drive, which is based on SATA technology, and the PM9A3 SSD, which uses MVMe, are now accessible to consumers. Both TD Synnex and AB are carrying out their activities...
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April 19, 2023 Russia / Россия
Key Point and Rostelecom are teaming up to build a new data center on Sakhalin Island, off the east coast of Russia, north of Japan. In September 2022, Key Point signed an agreement with Sakhalin Oblast Governor Valery Igorevich to construct a data center in the Sakhalin Region, without providing...
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April 18, 2023 Russia / Россия
Key Point Technologies, a Russian data center operator, has broken ground on a new facility in Novosibirsk. The data center is set to be one of the largest in Siberia, with a total capacity of 8MW. The Tier III quality facility will provide 8MW at completion. First announced in 2022, the first...
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March 21, 2023 Prague
Seznam.cz has launched a new data center outside Prague, in Benátky nad Jizerou, known as 'Nagoya'. The Czech Internet portal outlined that the facility spans around 1,200 square meters, with a capacity of 3MW across two data halls with 200 racks. Work began on construction in February 2022. The...
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March 17, 2023 Bulgaria
Yettel Bulgaria and CETIN Bulgaria, part of the PPF Telecom Group, have announced the signing of a 10-year solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Electrohold. Through this deal, the company will offtake energy from an upcoming unnamed 123 MW photovoltaic plant. This will reportedly cover...
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February 16, 2023 Russia / Россия
The Russian Federation has announced its intent to launch a crypto-mining facility worth over $12.3 million (900 million rubles) in the coming months. To be situated in Buryatia, a Russian republic in eastern Siberia, the facility, upon completion, is pegged to contain 30,000 mining...
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February 06, 2023 Russia / Россия
Key Point has announced the launch of a new data center in Primorsky Krai in far east Russia. The Russian data center developer has outlined that at full build-out, the facility will have capacity for 880 racks and 10MW. Its first phase saw the construction of two modules with a total capacity of...
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